//------------------------------// // Luna's Eclipse // Story: Sonic: Friendship is Eternal // by VGFanatic20 //------------------------------// Luna's Eclipse Luna and Nightmare Moon clashed, holding each other at the shoulders with their hooves. Both of them face to face and growling with their teeth barred as they glared into each other's eyes. Their horns touched, sparking with magic and clashing with one another. They distanced themselves from the other before rushing back in and clashing with thunderous clashes that rang through the empty expanse of darkness. Each clash was like a firework exploding, bright and loud. They hovered a distance from each other, panting heavily before unleashing beams of magic. Luna's laced with the power of the moon, while Nightmare Moons was laced with nightmare magic. The beams collided, sparking at the point of impact as each mare tried to win this war of attrition with every ounce of their being. With a mighty roar Luna unleashed her fury in the beam, overpowering Nightmare Moon and hitting her horn with the beam. Nightmare flew back before righting herself and growling at Luna. Smoke coming from her horn from the injury it received. Nightmare Moon began to grin before ditching her armor and fading into the dark. Luna blinked as she tried to find her darker self before feeling Nightmare's rear hooves bucking her in the back, hard. Luna grunted from the hit as she was sent flying, she stopped herself and turned. "Where are you?!" she shouted in the darkness. Her eyes went wide with fear when Nightmare's fore hooves wrapped around her from behind. "I'm right here, and I always will be." She whispered into her ear. Luna gritted her teeth before conjuring an electric spell and zapping Nightmare to get free. Nightmare hissed before disappearing into the dark. Luna looked around, trying to find her. Nightmare was creeping in the darkness below her, grinning madly as she prepared to strike. Luna smirked before looking down and hitting her in the face with a magic bolt. Nightmare yelped in pain as she moved her fore hooves to her face as she became visible again. "How?!" she asked in frustration and confusion. "That electric shock served two purposes, one was to get you off of me. The other was to place some of my magic on you so I could tell where you were. I just wanted to act helpless so you'd fall for it hook, line, and sinker." Luna said with a confident smirk. Nightmare began to laugh, which confused Luna. "What pray-tell is so humorous?" Luna asked. Nightmare stopped laughing, leaving a smile on her face as her horn lit up. As soon as it lit up a dozen or more magic arrows were positioned around Luna. "You think I was simply moving without detection? Oh no my dear, I was also laying traps for you. Like this one." She waved her hoof and the arrows immediately shot at Luna, she did her best to avoid them. She winced as she felt some graze her hind legs and side, leaving superficial cuts. She could feel the blood begin to mat her fur around the injuries. Luna looked at Nightmare with pure hate in her eyes. "What pray-tell do you think you're glaring at?" Nightmare asked, mocking Luna. Luna growled at her, angered by that. She then had a thought, one that didn't bring a smile to her face. //sis…forgive me…// she thought before conjuring magic. "Show me what you have cooking in that feeble mind of yours." Nightmare Moon said, confident in her success. Luna continued to conjure her magic, the blood in her fur began to lift up and swirl around her horn. Nightmare saw it reflecting the light of the magic in her horn and immediately seemed to be worried. "Blades of Blood!" she shouted as the blood was enhanced with magic and created giant red blades of magic that flew toward Nightmare at high speed. The blades spun and swirled around one another as they struck their target, who was too stunned to have dodged the blood magic. The blades tore into her flesh, cutting her along her sides, legs and face. The spell ended quickly and wasn't too strong, since it was just a small amount of blood. Nightmare growled at Luna, "You insolent little welp!" she shouted angrily at her. Luna was panting lightly, since Blood Magic did draw on a small bit of life force. She was fortunate it was a small amount of blood. Nightmare began to laugh, "You have given me quite the weapon!" Nightmare Moon said as she began to focus her magic and every drop of blood from her injuries. The blood swirling around her horn. "Bloody Torrent!" she shouted as she fired the magic enhanced blood at Luna. The blood surrounded her and spun around, faster and faster as they began to cut into her flesh. Luna could feel the stings of every cut before the blood blades stopped and exploded violently, sending her into the floor of the expanse. She hit the ground hard and groaned in pain as she tried to get back onto her hooves, which proved very difficult. Nightmare laughed as she descended to the ground, landing near Luna. Luna just looked at her and growled weakly as she lay there covered in cuts and bruises. "Still got some fight left in you I see." Nightmare said with a bored expression, growing tired of this pointless fight. "So long as I draw breath, I will not lose to you." She said "Then I'll just have to stop you from breathing." Nightmare said coldly as a dark tendril wrapped around Luna's neck and began to squeeze. Luna struggled against it to get it off, but all that proved to do was make her more worn out and easier to kill. Her eyes soon began to fill with tears, which soon streamed down her cheeks. Her mind going to her sister, her friends, how she failed them all. "Soon my little pony, you will die and I will take that which is rightfully mine." Nightmare said with a sick grin. Luna's face began to turn a pale blue as the blood flow began to cease as did her air intake. She blacked out at this point. During this blackout she saw horrible things, death and destruction everywhere, Nightmare Moon being the cause. She could see the bodies of her friends, her sister. That was all it took, she regained consciousness and her power exploded forth. The tendril lost its grip and she took a breath of air as the room began to turn a bright white. Luna then unleashed her power onto Nightmare Moon, sending her flying. She gave chase and slammed her into the ground before chaining her down and jumping back. "I'm gonna have to thank Shadow for this idea" she said as the room turned black with a single full moon above. She began to conjure a lot of magic before raising a hoof and swinging it down. "Lunar Judgement!" she shouted as a blast of pure Lunar Energy rained down upon Nightmare Moon. The screams of anguish emanating from the mare indicated it hit its mark. Once the energy stopped the room became gray again. She approached Nightmare, who was lying in a heap. "I have won, I have proved I've no use for you" Luna said. Nightmare just scoffed and weakly pointed a hoof toward where the doors would be. "Tell me…what do you see?" she asked. Luna turned and saw no doors there. "I don't understand…" Luna said. "Of course you don't you ignorant foal!" Nightmare shouted. "You haven't accomplished the room's purpose." She said as she started to stand up again, filling with energy by the second. "And another glorious thing, since I'm just a figment of your darker side and this room conjured me up. I'll be around until you accomplish the room's purpose. Or until you die, whichever happens first" Nightmare said with a laugh. Luna stared at her darker self, now out of trump cards and having no idea what to do now. She was literally cornered with no way out. Eggman's Base The Egg Emperor Mk II hovered in front of our heroes, neither side having made a move yet. Both sides just stared each other down for what seemed like the longest time. Suddenly the Egg Emperor Mk II began to move, swinging its lances and sending out blades of energy that matched the direction of the slice. He swung one at a time, trying to hit any of them. Sonic and the others acted fast and started to move to avoid the attacks. Eggman laughed as he continued to attack. Pinkie grinned as she loaded Espio into her party cannon and fired him at the bot. Espio had a rope with explosive tags on it, as he flew at the bot he tossed a kunai at it, only to see one of the jet thrusters move from behind the bot to the front to act as a shield. The kunai knife bounced right off of it. "Dammit" Espio said as he dropped the rope and landed safely on the other side of the area. "Nice try Espio, but you'll have to do better than that to damage this bot" Eggman said triumphantly as the jet returned to behind the bot. Sonic ran up a wall and jumped at the bot, Dash just flew at it fast as she could. Eggman laughed. "Air Pulse!" Eggman shouted as wind emanated from the bot, blowing them away. The lances then ignited. "Fire Storm!" Eggman shouted as the arms all swung in unison, firing an asterisk shaped fireball that exploded violently and spread rapidly around before dying down quickly. Some of the heroes got singed from it, but thankfully no one was severely hurt. Sonic ran at the bot again, determined to beat Eggman. "Freeze" Eggman said as he stabbed the floor and made it slippery as ice. Sonic lost his traction, slipping and landing on his butt as he slid across the floor. He noticed the rope Espio dropped and grabbed it as he slid past before coming to a stop near the bot. he stood up and jammed the kunai in the foot of the bot before running and stopping on purpose to start to slide. Using the rope to control his direction he began to move to the left and he jumped, causing the rope to wrap around the bot as he kept going. Soon he reached the end of the rope and let go, flying straight into a wall. Espio, after having seen that, made a tiger seal with his hands and the explosive tags did their job, exploding right on the bot. Smoke soon surrounded the bot as the sound of multiple explosions rang out. When the smoke cleared the Egg Emperor Mk II was still there, seemingly unaffected by the explosions. "Very clever, managing to sneak through my shield and deliver a blow to the Egg Emperor Mk II." Eggman said. "Too bad that's not gonna cut it!" he said as he began to swing all 4 arms rapidly, sending out a flurry of energy blades at the heroes. The heroes found this much harder to dodge and when they saw what it did to the floor and wall that were hit by the blades, they were glad they managed to avoid it. The floor and wall were completely obliterated. "Chaos Spear!" Shadow and Twilight said in unison as they fired a twin Chaos Spear attack. The jets moved to the front and blocked the attack with ease. "Too bad, so sad" Eggman taunted before firing more energy blades. Silver managed to catch a few with his Psychokinesis before throwing them back at the bot. The jet moved to block the attack, the blades were destroyed upon impact with the shield. "What?" Silver wondered in shock, having been sure that would work. "Very clever, using my own weapon against me. I'm sure you expected the Shield to either ignore it or be destroyed by it." Eggman said. "Well news flash, I made the proverbial unbreakable shield. But I was sure not to make an all piercing lance" he began to laugh triumphantly; his new Egg Emperor seemed invincible. "How in Equestria are we gonna beat him?" Dash wondered, feeling helpless.